Li’s research could prevent AI models from failing catastrophically when they encounter unfamiliar scenarios.
2023 Innovator of the Year: As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe Read More
The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today’s chips are among humankind’s most complex inventions.
The chip patterning machines that will shape computing’s next act Read More
Telecom companies have long resisted letting scientific sensors piggyback on their subsea cables—until now.
These underwater cables can improve tsunami detection Read More
Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.
This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents’ Garage Read More
Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis.
Undersea Cables Are Carrying Scientific Secrets Read More
What are some of the new initiatives from the U.S. Government Publishing Office? Director Hugh Halpern offers an update, which has been incorporated into our program for tonight’s Building Democracy’s Library event.
An Update from Hugh Halpern, Director of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Read More
By combining two processors into one, the company has squeezed a surprising amount of performance out of silicon.
How Apple’s Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore’s Law Alive Read More
Corporations continue to control access to materials that are in the library, which is controlling preservation, and it’s killing us.
After 25 years, Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are still working to democratize knowledge Read More
In this article, we present a new way of describing the Internet, better attuned to the realities of networking today, and to meeting the challenges of the future. Its central idea is that the architecture of the Internet is a flexible composition of many networks—not just the networks acknowledged in the classic Internet architecture, but many other networks both above and below the public Internet in a hierarchy of abstraction.
The Compositional Architecture of the Internet Read More
MIT Technology Review, July/Aug 2019
“It’s part of our ethos that technology can and should be a force for good. Our annual list of 35 innovators under 35 is a way of putting faces on that idea. ”
35 Innovators Under 35 – 2019 Read More
By Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, & Wendy Seltzer
“Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it’s changing the world, and what you need to know to survive in tomorrow’s digital world. A best-seller when it was first published in 2010, the issues it addresses are more crucial than ever. ”
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (2nd Edition) Read More
“SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley. The film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor and in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce.”
Silicon Valley: Where the Future was Born Read More
Explore the many aspects of Fiber Optic Cable & Submarine Cable Systems. Global networks of hair-thin strands of highly refined silicone over which most all our data travels. Go ahead, geek out a bit. You might learn something.
The Amazing World of Fiber Optic Communications Read More
Wired.com, December 1, 1996
By Neal Stephenson
“The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.”
Mother Earth Mother Board (Further Adventures of the Hacker Tourist) Read More
Communications of the ACM, February 2019
By Carl Landwher
“Innovation has its downside and loss of privacy is not easy to remedy. “
2018: A Big Year for Privacy Read More
The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2018
Opinion by Margaret O’Mara
“In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson’s administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data Bank. It was meant as an efficiency move to make the Great Society even greater.”
The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s Read More
Wired.com, Nov 13, 2018.
By Tom Simonite
“The age of homebrew AI may not be all sweetness and light. Nor will it be all darkness and porn. Meet some of the pioneers showing what happens when the masses can teach computers new tricks.”
The DIY Tinkerers Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence Read More